CA Supreme Court Rules That Employees Cannot Recover Unpaid Wages Through PAGA

By Joseph S. Persoff on September 12, 2019 Posted in PAGA

California’s Supreme Court has cut off an area of significant potential exposure for California employers by ruling that employees cannot recover unpaid wages on behalf of themselves and other aggrieved employees through California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). Serving as a quasi-class action, California’s PAGA allows employees to recover civil penalties for California Labor Code … Continue Reading

California Supreme Court Denies Sequenced Discovery in Representative PAGA Action

By John Lewis on July 14, 2017 Posted in PAGA, Wage and Hour

On July 13, 2017, the California Supreme Court rejected lower court holdings that limited an employee’s ability to secure statewide employee contact and employment information in a representative PAGA action, when the plaintiff only worked in one of the employer’s stores. In Williams v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (Marshalls of CA, LLC), Case … Continue Reading

California Supreme Court Again Considers the Validity of Class and Representative Action Waivers

By John Lewis and Dustin Dow on June 23, 2014 Posted in PAGA

Today, in a highly-anticipated decision, the California Supreme Court in Iskanian v. CLS Transportation Los Angeles, Inc. (Case No. S204032), resolved several long-standing questions regarding the impact of class and representative action waivers under California law. The Court’s prior Discovery Bank v. Superior Court (2005),decision was invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court in AT&T Mobility … Continue Reading